It’s going to be nice to return to that.”īiden was joined in Flint by former President Barack Obama, who touted incremental change and preemptively downplayed expectations of economic transformation. To counter Trump’s assault, the Democratic campaign this weekend returned to Flint, Michigan - the place the Obama administration left to suffer through a horrific toxic water crisis, exacerbated by Michigan’s then-Republican governor (who has since endorsed Biden).ĭuring the event, Biden declared that during his last tour of duty as vice president, we “went through eight years without one single trace of scandal. Obama: “You’re Not Going To Have To Think About Them” And he is now all but threatening to stage a coup if he loses. In the process, they have transformed unethical voter suppression from a stealth scheme into a very public campaign tactic, normalizing anti-democratic fascism as just another accepted election strategy. Instead of triaging the economic and public health crises, he and his party have focused on packing the court with right-wing extremists and making it harder for Americans to vote him out of office. He must be defeated because he has done almost nothing to help millions of people being pulverized by skyrocketing costs for health care, housing and other basic necessities of life. He has used the presidency to enrich himself, his family and his donors, while grossly mismanaging the response to a lethal pandemic.

He built his own private swamp in the middle of the corrupt marshland that is Washington, D.C. To state the obvious: Trump pretending to be an anti-establishment populist is patently absurd, and everyone knows it. The former’s message is laughably dishonest, the latter’s message is profoundly cynical and potentially dangerous. In the closing hours of the 2020 election, Donald Trump is dishonestly casting his reelection bid as a crusade against the corrupt swamp that he helped expand and profited from, while Democrats are promising that if Trump is defeated, voters will finally be able to go back to brunch as the Washington establishment returns itself to power. It is the first of a two-part series being released just before the election. This report was written by David Sirota and Andrew Perez.

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